V for Victory: A Novel

The secrets of a woman and her adopted son struggling to survive the London Blitz are about to be exposed in this "darkly comic" (Booklist) novel.

It's late 1944. Hitler's rockets are raining down on London with vicious regularity and it's the coldest winter in living memory. The Allies are gaining ground, but victory is certainly dragging its feet.

In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of lodgers to feed and her young charge Noel, almost fiftee...